Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence- driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she's shocked when her sitter, Emira Tucker, is brazened while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their original high- end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a youthful black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of abducting two- time-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a observer flicks everything, and Emira is furious and lowered. Alix resolves to make effects right.

But Emira herself is random, broke, and cautious of Alix's desire to help. At twenty- five, she's about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the videotape of Emira unearths someone from Alix's history, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they suppose they know about themselves, and each other.

With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional connections, what it means to make someone" family," and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It's a searing debut for our times.

Kiley Reid earned her MFA from the Iowa pens' Factory, where she was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship and tutored undergraduate creative jotting shops with a focus on race and class. Reid lives in Philadelphia.

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